By Jim W. Dean,
…from Patrick Lancaster
[ Editor’s Note: Patrick was heading into Mariupol and came across a house in the suburbs that was burning from a shelling explosion. I have seen these above ground gas lines, cheaper to lay out versus the buried kind, torch a lot of these houses when the line is pierced in the blast and then lights up these houses.
You can see how flimsily they are built, with zero insulation in the walls, nothing but the basics. The people had to rush out quickly in bath robes. The husband ran back in to get his laptop and got burned.
So another family is wiped out, documents, family papers, money, everything gone. Fortunately a daughter has an apartmemnt to share.
This is happening on both sides of the conflict due to NATO’s appetite for expansion and bringing its military threat to the border of Russia. NATO has known this was a red line for Moscow and decided it was time to have a war, usually a limited one.
It was cover for confiscating Russian currency reserves in the West, and its gold there, which came as a shock to us at VT, as we had assumed they would be keeping it in Moscow.
Of course the sanctions are going to blow back on the US that was already facing high inflation before the Ukraine war. Now it will go higher, but with Putin as the selected scapegoat once again, as NATO seems to be a one trick pony… Jim W. Dean ]
First published April 12, 2022
While I was on the way to Mariupol, we came across a home that had been hit by a Ukrainian shelling attack. The man of the house received heavy burns but thankfully everyone lived, but this family lost everything
